Why did desegregation of Southern schools become a major problem in the USA in the 1950s?

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Why did desegregation of Southern schools become a major problem in the USA in the 1950’s?

In America in the 1950’s American schools were segregated into all white and all black schools. They were taught separately and the black schools had limited funds in comparison to the white schools. Many whites in the southern schools still believed blacks should be segregated after the civil war. The black people had to fight for freedom. The aftermath of the civil war lead to segregation.

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One of the main problems that faced desegregation in the southern states was that white’s stilled carried a hatred for the blacks. The northern states won the war and the southern states felt betrayed by the northern states and as though the Black people had turned their own against them. The whites then decided to oppress the black people.

Soon Desegregation began to be enforced over the Southern states. A black girl Linda Brown had to walk two miles everyday to get to the nearest black only school. Just around the corner from her house was an ...

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